Software Engineer, Platform Team
SpaceX
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SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.
SpaceX currently has 851 open roles on FindRole.
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Software Engineer (Platform Team) The Software Engineer (Platform Team) joins a team responsible for building foundational tooling and security infrastructure to enable effective AI usage across the organization. You will design, build, and operate secure, scalable AI platforms and proxy systems that convert engineering know-how into automation and reliable data stores. Daily responsibilities include owning the full development lifecycle, onboarding new frontier models, expanding compute capacity, and optimizing proxy efficiency for logging and control. You will create risk-mitigation tools like intelligent code review assistants and shared prompts. The role requires proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript, alongside experience with Docker containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code. You will solve the technical challenge of creating secure gateways that integrate multiple cloud compute and frontier model providers into production workflows.
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